Systems Affected
Google Chrome
Threat Level
Overview
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Google Chrome. Affected by this issue is the function ProcessCommandsInternal of the file dec/decode.c of the component Brotli. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Description
The weakness was presented 02/14/2016. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-1624. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.
Impact
Solution/ Workarounds
✻ Update the latest version of the Mozilla's Firefox on Windows, Linux and Mac.
References
http://www.scip.ch/en/?vuldb.80948
Disclaimer
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